Jim Fouratt

Jim Fouratt (23 June 1945?- ) is active in the entertainment industry and gay rights.

Life and works

Jim Fouratt was an early member of the Gay Liberation Front[1] [2] and a participant in the Stonewall riots.[3][4] Fouratt lived with Carl Miller, Allen Young, Giles Kotcher, Bob Bland and Punit Auerbacher in the Seventeenth Street commune.[5][6] He became the manager for the club Hurrah in 1978 and brought in DJs to create the first "Rock Disco," with music videos playing as well as live music acts.[7] In 1980 he opened Danceteria with Rudolf Pieper. He has also been a writer for Billboard magazine,[8] where he has been an outspoken critic of rappers such as Eminem. In the late 1990's, Fouratt attempted to launch Beauty Records, a recording imprint funded by Mercury Records' Danny Goldberg, but that project was short-circuited when Mercury's parent corporation, Polygram, was bought out by Seagrams, and Fouratt's acts were let go.

References

  1. ^ Gross, Jane (September 22, 1985), "Homosexuals stepping up AIDS education", The New York Times: Section 1; Part 1, Page 1, Column 1; Metropolitan Desk 
  2. ^ Marotta, Toby (1981). The politics of homosexualty. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 0395294770. 
  3. ^ Kirby, David (June 27, 1999), "Making it work; Stonewall Veterans Recall the Outlaw Days", The New York Times: Section 14; Page 3; Column 1; The City Weekly Desk, http://www.lexisnexis.com/us/lnacademic/results/docview/docview.do?docLinkInd=true&risb=21_T8544954573&format=GNBFI&sort=RELEVANCE&startDocNo=1&resultsUrlKey=29_T8544954576&cisb=22_T8544954575&treeMax=true&treeWidth=0&selRCNodeID=51&nodeStateId=29243001en_US56E8257609904D94976F126743B5E1E9,1&docsInCategory=11&csi=6742&docNo=3, retrieved February 11, 2010 
  4. ^ Duberman, Martin (1993). Stonewall. Dutton. ISBN 0525936025. 
  5. ^ Jay, Karla (1999). Tales of the Lavender Menace. Basic Books. 
  6. ^ Smash the church, smash the state! : the early years of gay liberation. City Lights Books. 2009. ISBN 9780872864979. 
  7. ^ Shapiro, P.: Turn the Beat Around: The Secret History of Disco, page 256. Faber & Faber, October 2006.
  8. ^ Gundersen, Edna (July 27, 2000), "Eminem: What's with this guy? Rapper's hate-filled lyrics anger some, while others say it's just a clever act", USA TODAY: LIFE; Pg. 1D, http://www.lexisnexis.com/us/lnacademic/results/docview/docview.do?docLinkInd=true&risb=21_T8544954573&format=GNBFI&sort=RELEVANCE&startDocNo=1&resultsUrlKey=29_T8544954576&cisb=22_T8544954575&treeMax=true&treeWidth=0&selRCNodeID=51&nodeStateId=29243001en_US56E8257609904D94976F126743B5E1E9,1&docsInCategory=11&csi=8213&docNo=5, retrieved February 11, 2010 

External links

Jack Nichols article